Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Spielberg based the story on the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter,
where a Kentucky family claimed that they had been terrorized by
gremlin-like aliens. Spielberg had heard the story from UFOlogist J.
Allen Hynek while doing research for Close Encounters.In Spielberg’s original treatment for Watch the Skies, eleven
malicious extraterrestrial scientists try to communicate with chickens,
cows, and other livestock in an attempt to discover which of Earth’s
animal species are sentient, before turning their unwelcome attentions
on the human family and dissecting their farm animals.

Maybe it's a good thing this never happened. I'd have a hard time respecting 11 humanoid "scientists" who were interrogating chickens.